INTERVIEWS

Conversations, chats, and critical thoughts with filmmakers and all those involved with the moving image.

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'All the images I create must be aware of the responsibility they carry': Markus Schleinzer on 'Rose'
INDIELISBOA 2026: The Austrian filmmaker speaks about the necessity of portraying the consequences of violence, freedom as tied to desire, and refusing conventions around gendered bodily presentation in cinema.
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'We always tried to stay true to who we felt these people were': Sophie Heldman on 'The Education of Jane Cumming'
INDIELISBOA 2026: The Berlin-based director explores the complex nature of truth through archives, the historical invisibilisation of women, and how her film embraces queerness in multiple ways.
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'The film is about being understood by others, but also making the effort to understand them': Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani on 'Bouchra'
INDIELISBOA 2026: The directors of this Toronto-premiered animated feature talk collaboration, combining documentary material with fictional story origins, and the imperative of specificity.
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'I'm on the side of making films where being queer isn't a big deal': Matthias Lintner on 'My Boyfriend the Fascist'
ONE WORLD PRAGUE 2026: The Bolzano-born director shares his own journey of political self-questioning in his highly reflexive new documentary, exploring the relationship between himself and his Cuban-born partner.
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'We try to reflect what the community is talking about': Bohdan Zhuk, SUNNY BUNNY director
SUNNY BUNNY 2026: We take a closer look at Ukraine's only queer film festival, which is working to change the narrative both sociopolitically and cinematically.
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'Sexuality stays with us even when our mind fades': Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi on 'Maspalomas'
STOCKFISH / BFI FLARE 2026: The co-directors of the Basque film making waves across the festival circuit talk about collaboration, change in social policy, and coming out of one's own closet in different ways.
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'I want people to broaden their horizons about what African love can be': Pamela Adie on 'Ìfé: (The Sequel)'
BFI FLARE 2026: The Nigerian LGBTQ+ activist and filmmaker turns from producing to directing to create the long-awaited sequel to the first lesbian film in Nigeria.
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'My job is to pull queer radicalism back to where it once belonged': Fil Ieropoulos on 'Uchronia'
BERLINALE / BFI FLARE 2026: If utopia has been overexploited as a politico-philosophical device, perhaps it's time to turn to "uchronia" instead—so we chat with the Greek filmmaker to unpack his latest feature, which interrogates the idea of queer history...
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'I thought it would be fun to find a cliché and turn it on its head': Mickey Stepanskiy on 'Knights on a Quest for Love'
ANIMA 2026: The US filmmaker explores how his light-hearted take on a topsy-turvy trope meaningfully turns a patriarchal fairytale upside down in his endearing comedic animated short.
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